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Absentee Vote: McCain
Dodges the Iowa Bullet

By

Gerald F. Seib

Updated Jan. 26, 2000 1:01 a.m. ET

M emo Re: The Great McCain Gamble of 2000.

Summary: Lookin' pretty good.

The biggest roll of the dice in this presidential campaign has been Republican Sen. John McCain's decision to buck tradition and skip the revered Iowa caucuses. The risk was he would get lost outside the glare of attention in Iowa and fade from view. The potential was...